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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,363 Views)
Vailnoff
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Recently, I've been working on an alien race, and have been trying to figure out how their civilization would work. This is what I have about them and their planet so far.


Planetary characteristics
Heavy amounts of oxygen
Thick atmosphere
More warm/humid than Earth
Slightly larger than Earth(1.4 Earth masses)
Life characteristics
Large insect like species the dominant lifeforms
On average, flying species are larger and more common due to thick atmosphere and high oxygen
Sophont characteristics
Roughly 7 feet tall
Has 4 wings
Stores memories chemically in a way similar to flatworms(e.g If one eats another, they gain their memories)
Main grasping organ is a long tail culminating in a single, many fingered hand(Although the length of the tail allows it to be used to grasp things too)
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Any ideas about how the development of their civilization and technology might differ from that of Earth?
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Vailnoff
Jul 2 2017, 11:41 AM
Stores memories chemically in a way similar to flatworms(e.g If one eats another, they gain their memories)
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Any ideas about how the development of their civilization and technology might differ from that of Earth?
I think thy'd have rituals where individuals are consumed by children to receive know-how.
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And maybe after they've advanced a bit, going to school might be more like going to the doctors.
I've also been thinking about zombies. I know they're a cliche at this point, but I just can't help meself, the different types just fascinate me.
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I've been wanting to see if people here would like to see my project. It would be a massive network of miniature fantasy/sci-fi/speculative biology worlds and I would present them all with the content I have made for them, connecting them into a bigger narrative.

Would you like such thing to be a reality?
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Uh. Hmm. That sounds an awful lot like the project I just posted today (albeit mine won't have much spec bio).
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Which is also similar to F.I.N.D.R, but I've been saying that a lot with other projects. It's really more of a genre at this point.
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Got another idea, which I'm working on. It's a terraformed world, with Cuttlefish being the "only" animals introduced. Of course, I'll introduce other invetebrates, but these would be small, to say the least. It'd most likely be an excuse for terrestrial cephalopods, but, what can you do.
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I also think it's becoming more of a genre than anything. I didn't notice you posted anything Mr. Mysterio so this is coincidental by any means. My projects merely rooted in the fact that I can't seem to be able to finish big updates for long-term projects so I want to make a project that's like small pieces in a jigsaw. Multiple pieces can be about the same person or the same figure in the bigger image, but a good jigsaw has all sorts of small pieces that display an image on their own, so I can in fact put all finished ideas within this project and create a jigsaw, regardless of whether the pieces are about the same subject or not.

My project will most likely be connected through multiple dimensions and storylines ... I still have to figure it out but I'm sure something will come eventually. If the time comes I'll show it here :D
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Jul 3 2017, 04:18 AM
Got another idea, which I'm working on. It's a terraformed world, with Cuttlefish being the "only" animals introduced. Of course, I'll introduce other invetebrates, but these would be small, to say the least. It'd most likely be an excuse for terrestrial cephalopods, but, what can you do.
Good luck with that, because the very crustaceans that it eats will colonize land way before the cuttlefish will. And god forbid you introduce any fish. They'll get real big, real fast.
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Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Jul 2 2017, 11:39 AM
A phylogenetic tree for arthropods is going to be a massive undertaking. I wish you the best of luck.

I was thinking of a project about a world where Antarctica never (completely) froze over. Cliche, I know, but I'd try to give it a unique flare - There's still glaciers that cover a good portion of the land, as well as a slightly different geography, as the continent was never crushed under kilometres of ice. I would have to find a way to keep the continent warm though, without if affecting much world history... Any suggestions are welcome.

Another project: This one focuses on a volcanic island that existed in the Permian, around 254 million years ago. Since there were no flying vertebrates around those times, the only inhabitants of the island are those who swam there or insects who flew there.

Also, a project focusing on a cave featuring descendants of prehistoric animals - but hear me out: These animals are descended from Cretaceous fauna, and are wildly different from their ancestors due to having evolved for 130-120-ish million years in isolation.

1-for antarcica not frozen you would need to have it joined with south america bia landbridge or some silands,no cincurpolant current means less cold,I also remmeber it getting coler latter during the panaman ithsmust thing but note sure, anyway you would have POD in the late-middle eocene or miocene
any douths with fauna ask me,flora btw would be very gondwana with podacarps and those things

2-if the project is set in the permian is an interesting idea but if its set in the present or after the appearence of flying vertebrates wouldn´t make sense

3-sounds good if they are derived enough, not sure how they would survive with not sunligth but honetsly not an expert on cave projects

also I rewcommend sticking to one or two projects,is idfficult to handle a great amount of them and better have few with higher quality than a a lot that are less developped
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

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Good luck with that, because the very crustaceans that it eats will colonize land way before the cuttlefish will. And god forbid you introduce any fish. They'll get real big, real fast.
Will only introduce Cuttlefish and their prey. So, an "invertebrate" world, in a sense :D
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Good luck with that, because the very crustaceans that it eats will colonize land way before the cuttlefish will. And god forbid you introduce any fish. They'll get real big, real fast.
Will only introduce Cuttlefish and their prey. So, an "invertebrate" world, in a sense :D
Besides, probably (read 'almost 100%') part of the reason why fish colonized land was to eat all the tasty insects crawling around, so the cuttlefish will want to eat the tasty land crabs.
This was getting fairly big.
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My ideas right now:

:The culture of intelligent aliens living on extreme worlds, for example a gas planet or a planet with very very high gravity.

:Last trilobite species alive living in the deep sea in an alternate timeline. The only difference with this alternate earth is that one trilobite species is left.

:Life on a brown star.

:A cave closed in ca. 400 million years by pure chance and the creatures that live there.
Number 1 seems pretty cool, though number 2 would probably be akin to the last dinosaur in some manner.

Number 3; How?! If it worked, though, you could do some exploring with it.

Number 4 seems dangerously close to Fragment and Diyu.

But hey, that's my opinion, so you can ignore it.
I havent read all the projects here... And I am not surprised that many ideas is similar.. Yes, the cave idea was very close to Diyu, but Fragment is much closer to King Kong and similar ideas.
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Good luck with that, because the very crustaceans that it eats will colonize land way before the cuttlefish will. And god forbid you introduce any fish. They'll get real big, real fast.
Will only introduce Cuttlefish and their prey. So, an "invertebrate" world, in a sense :D
Besides, probably (read 'almost 100%') part of the reason why fish colonized land was to eat all the tasty insects crawling around, so the cuttlefish will want to eat the tasty land crabs.
Really? I heard it was more to escape predation.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Good luck with that, because the very crustaceans that it eats will colonize land way before the cuttlefish will. And god forbid you introduce any fish. They'll get real big, real fast.
Will only introduce Cuttlefish and their prey. So, an "invertebrate" world, in a sense :D
Besides, probably (read 'almost 100%') part of the reason why fish colonized land was to eat all the tasty insects crawling around, so the cuttlefish will want to eat the tasty land crabs.
Really? I heard it was more to escape predation.
And I heard "to escape drying pools of water".
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